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ISACA White Paper: Five Key Questions to Improve Big Data Governance

London, UK: Big data—dubbed “the new oil” by the World Economic Forum—can improve decision making, reduce time to market and increase profits. But it can also raise significant risk, ranging from disastrous data breaches to privacy and compliance concerns. To help enterprises retain control of their massive and fast-changing information, ISACA has issued new guidance available freely at www.isaca.org/privacy-and-big-data. Privacy and Big Data: An ISACA White Paper outlines critical governance and assurance considerations as well as key questions that must be answered.

: Beth Smith; Case Studies; Posted On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 10:56

NICE launches quality Assurance solution for public safety as part of new version of NICE Inform

Inform v6 offers new capabilities for evaluating the performance of public safety operators post-event, across the full incident, which enable improved future responses

RA’ANANA, ISRAEL: NICE Systems has launched of NICE Inform Version 6, which enables Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) to evaluate the quality of service delivered across an entire emergency incident. The solution has been designed to offer unique value to public safety organizations as it supports the evaluation of single calls as well as complete incidents, including the processing of multimedia input, such as GIS, video, and CAD screen.

: GRAHAM THATCHER; InfoSecurity; Posted On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 10:46

DOSarrest begins offering vulnerability testing and optimisation

LONDON (UK): DOSarrest Internet Security announced today that it will begin offering a website Vulnerability Testing and Optimisation (VTO) service. The service is a comprehensive test that will intelligently trawl a website and find any vulnerabilities in the site’s coding, as well as analyse the structure of the website to see what can be optimised for better performance, all for a safer and better web experience for your visitors.

: Lara Lackie; Appointments, Promotions & Personality Profile; Posted On Tuesday, 13 August 2013 10:59

Skills for Security welcomes new Director General

Skills for Security, the sector skills body for the UK’s private security industry, has appointed Terri Jones as its new Director General.

Terri joins the team at a pivotal time for the organisation, and will provide strategic direction for the company, focusing on new business generation while assuming responsibility for the successful financial and commercial performance of the company. She joins the organisation today (Monday 12th August) and will spend some time with Interim Chief Executive, Mike Britnell, before his departure from the business.